Highlight
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Formerly Beast, now Highlight, with four members carrying on and their own label. They won Artist of the Year at the Melon Music Awards twice, so the name change was more of a plot twist than a downgrade.
- Members
- 4
- Debut
- 2009 (17 years)
- Generation
- 2nd gen (2004 to 2011)
- Label
- Around Us
Start with: Fiction
Achievements
- Only South Korean rookie group to sell over 100,000 albums in 2010
- Best New Artist at the 25th Golden Disc Awards (2010)
- Japanese debut single "Shock" (2011) debuted at number two on the daily Oricon Singles Chart, the highest debut by a foreign artist at the time
- Grand prize for Artist of the Year at the Melon Music Awards in 2011, and again in 2012
- Among the most awarded groups at the Golden Disc Awards, Seoul Music Awards and Melon Music Awards
Timeline
- 2009Debut as Beast on October 15 with the EP Beast Is the B2ST
- 2011First full-length album Fiction and Fact and Japanese debut with "Shock"
- 2014EPs Good Luck and Time, both number one on the Gaon Album Chart
- 2016Jang Hyun-seung leaves; third album Highlight; group launches its own label Around Us
- 2017Rename as Highlight and re-debut with Can You Feel It?
- 2019Yong Jun-hyung leaves the group in March
- 2021First comeback as four members with The Blowing after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus
- 2024Fifth EP Switch On
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